I reckon you need to define first, what exactly you mean by formal education, as many people will interpret many different things. A college degree? Highschool? A standard education compared to homeschooling/alternative school concepts? In my opinion, you don’t need a degree, but education is always invaluable and if you decide to take it into your own hands, you need to be very considerate as humans tend to focus on what they’re good at and what they deem important. This may lead to a lot of blind spots though.

Full disclosure I'm involved in this project, so of course I think it's great, but NuID & The Kii Foundation are launching a utility token for identity called Kii later this month on LATOKEN. There's a lot of materials on the kiichain.org website if you want to check it out

Haha nothing wrong with that in my opinion, as long as you make it transparent. Thanks for your honesty and your input! It sounds interesting, though I must say I’m not sure I fully understand the idea of utility tokens or at least how they differ from other crypto currencies. This one will be for protection of personal data, yes? That does certainly sound interesting and like it has potential. I feel like these kind of values – privacy, democracy, sustainability – will be much more important in the future, in the crypto scene as well as anywhere else.

In my own opinion, I think the "To Earn" space is the next big thing. It all starts with play-to-earn that began with the boom of Axie Infinity that leads to a tremendous growth of other P2E games in the space. Then here comes move-to-earn (P2E) that began with STEPN, and there will be other "To Earn" projects such as learn-to-earn, watch-to-earn, sleep-to-earn, etc.

Wow that’s fascinating, hadn’t heard of that before. Have you been playing Axie Infinity for long?

I can not look into the future - unfortunately, otherwise I would already be rich haha but I have already read and learned a lot in recent months. Of course you also need a lucky hand. So it's hard to say what will be the next big thing, but gamechangers certainly exist.
I really like methods that stand out from Bitcoin and co. and think they are really interesting. So no more proof of work, but proof of personhood like Idena for example. There's a democratic approach and everyone gets the same amount, if you know what I mean. I think in a world like we find today, that's a good approach. :-)
Of course, it's hard to say how the whole thing will develop, but you don't have to invest a huge sum right away, but you can do some “tests” with smaller amounts of money as well.

Neither can I, but I like to think up different scenarios and especially talk about it with likeminded souls Proof of personhood also sounds good, kind of aligns with the values I mentioned before.
 

It is hardly worth now to name projects that, in our opinion, are promising for growth. Usually in such cases, the participants of the forum have doubts about the impartiality of such an opinion. Indeed, in such a case, they often name a project in the development of which this person is interested for some reason. This will look especially unpredictable during the current deep period of the bear market. During such periods, it is very unpredictable to appear on the cryptocurrency market even with very good ideas. Due to various objective and subjective reasons, even the best projects during the bear period often do not find even minimal investment support.

May I respectfully disagree? It’s true that the market isn’t great now, and yes, oftentimes people tend to push their own projects, but I still find it important to talk about it, list up pros and cons and keep the conversation going. Ideally, like @ zooboomafoo1234 did, stating honestly when you are personally involved in something.

Thanks for the good summary of the topic Blockchain is something I still find fascinating, even though I had trouble understanding it when I first got into the subject. Now, I’m very interested in this and also the different kinds of blockchain, like proof of work, proof of stake, and also proof of personhood. Each has its own pros and cons.

At the moment I’m definitely still at the beginning of my journey with crypto I guess. Reading and watching and learning a lot. What initially drew me to the subject was a conversation I had with a friend who’s been investing since 2015 and was able to pay off all his student loans. But to be honest it wasn’t so much the thought of “easy money” that caught my interest, I guess I’m still a bit sceptical about that. It’s more the revolutionary concept of a decentralized currency and perhaps a more democratic world as a result, that made me want to know and understand the whole thing better.

Hey guys, my name’s Elias I’m from Austria (@Denny have we met, haha?  ). I work in onlinemarketing and also do some art projects on the side. Just getting into this whole crypto topic but it’s already quite fascinating and I hope to learn a lot in this forum. Also, I like that you give “negative karma” penalties, I think a lot of online forums would benefit from something like this